Conferring

Use the SSR conferencing time to model how to have conversations about texts. “Questions to Consider for Conferences” is a conferencing guidefound on Instructional Resources web page, with question stems for:

Conferring

Use the SSR conferencing time to model how to have conversations about texts. “Questions to Consider for Conferences” is a conferencing guidefound on Instructional Resources web page, with question stems for:

Writing

Introduce cursive

Handwriting is an important skill and we need to guide students to write legibly. While letter formation is usually introduced and practiced during Working with Words, the natural transfer and application is during the Writing Block.

3.23(A) write legibly in cursive script with spacing between words in a sentence

San Antonio Writing Project

Students should write daily and have multiple opportunities to share their writing (works in progress and completed compositions) with others. Structures should be in place to support students when they are sharing/peer editing their own writing and the writing of classmates.

During the unit of study focusing on publishing, all students should publish one composition (even if they have published earlier compositions). Teachers may want to work closely with students to explain classroom expectations for published work for the second semester.

The conventions taught during the second grading period help to organize student compositions with prepositional phrases, and time-order transitions.

Key Questions for Writing

Ideas: Does the writer engage the reader with fresh information or perspective on a focused topic?

Organization: Does the organizational structure enhance the ideas and make them easier to understand?

Conventions/Editing: How much editing is required before the piece can be shared as a final product?

Presentation/Publishing: Is the finished piece easy to read, polished in presentation, and pleasing to the eye?

Introduce cursive

Handwriting is an important skill and we need to guide students to write legibly. While letter formation is usually introduced and practiced during Working with Words, the natural transfer and application is during the Writing Block.

3.23(A) write legibly in cursive script with spacing between words in a sentence

San Antonio Writing Project

Students should write daily and have multiple opportunities to share their writing (works in progress and completed compositions) with others. Structures should be in place to support students when they are sharing/peer editing their own writing and the writing of classmates.

During the unit of study focusing on publishing, all students should publish one composition (even if they have published earlier compositions). Teachers may want to work closely with students to explain classroom expectations for published work for the second semester.

The conventions taught during the second grading period help to organize student compositions with prepositional phrases, and time-order transitions.

Key Questions for Writing

Ideas: Does the writer engage the reader with fresh information or perspective on a focused topic?

Organization: Does the organizational structure enhance the ideas and make them easier to understand?

Conventions/Editing: How much editing is required before the piece can be shared as a final product?

Presentation/Publishing: Is the finished piece easy to read, polished in presentation, and pleasing to the eye?